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Intuitive Machines had a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) award valued at $118 million for the IM-1 mission.
Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander, named Odysseus, completed a seven-day journey to lunar orbit and landed near Malapert A on February 22 at 5:24 p.m. CST.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson congratulated Intuitive Machines for the successful landing of the Odysseus lander.
The lunar delivery by Intuitive Machines is part of NASA's Artemis campaign, which aims to send astronauts to the Moon to search for water and other resources later this decade.
Intuitive Machines' landing site for Odysseus was about 1.5 kilometers from its planned location.
Intuitive Machines expected flight controllers to continue communications with Odysseus until 2024-02-27 based on Earth–Moon positioning.
At a 2024-02-23 briefing, Intuitive Machines was working to reconfigure antennas to increase Odysseus downlink rates.
Intuitive Machines planned to build additional Nova-C landers for future missions, including the IM-2 mission in the fall and IM-3 early next year.
Intuitive Machines confirmed a signal from the lander about 15 minutes after its intended landing time.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander Odysseus completed a seven-day journey to lunar orbit and softly landed near Malapert A in the Moon’s South Pole region at 5:24 p.m. CST on 2024-02-22.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander Odysseus performed a 408-second burn of its main engine on 2024-02-21 to place the spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Intuitive Machines originally scheduled the 2024-02-22 landing for 5:49 p.m. Eastern and revised the landing time to 5:30 p.m. Eastern on 2024-02-21.
Intuitive Machines planned that successfully completing the 2024-02-16 engine test would increase confidence that the engine would perform as required for a soft landing.
Intuitive Machines planned a landing attempt for Odysseus on 2024-02-22 near the Malapert A crater in the moon’s south polar region.
Intuitive Machines completed two trajectory correction maneuvers prior to the 2024-02-21 insertion burn and determined a third planned maneuver was not needed.
Shares of Intuitive Machines fell 15% on the Nasdaq exchange on 2024-02-21, including a sharp drop around the anticipated orbital insertion time.
Lonestar Data Holdings selected Intuitive Machines as its partner for the Independence Mission and will continue working with Intuitive Machines for the company's upcoming Freedom Mission.
The Freedom Mission is scheduled to launch on Intuitive Machines' second mission later 2024.
On the evening of 2024-02-18, Intuitive Machines listed the lander as being in excellent health and controllers as planning trajectory correction maneuvers.
Intuitive Machines’ shares closed at $7.32 on 2024-02-16, up nearly 47% from a week earlier.